RAISING ARIZONA

from Midwest Conservative Journal by The Editor

These days, people are entertaining the idea of boycotting the State of Arizona over its wildly-popular new immigration law. Los Angeles just instituted one which might have a downside considering where a fair amount of La-La-Land’s power comes from.

You’d think that the Episcopal Organization would enthusiastically move the upcoming September meeting of its House of Squishops out of Phoenix. But in a bit of a surprise, you’d be wrong:

"The Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops will meet Sept. 15-21 in Phoenix for its regular fall meeting as planned, including an optional pre-meeting trip to the U.S.-Mexican border, despite public outcry over Arizona’s recent enactment of the nation’s toughest immigration law and calls for a boycott."

Why? Guess. It’s not like Arizona would notice or care if the HOS didn’t show. So a chance to engage in this kind of cheap, pseudo-Christian, moral posturing has to be impossible for the Squishops to pass up.

“It’s an opportunity to be educated, to be informed and to make a public statement about solidarity with people that are victims in this, and there are victims on both sides, which is important to emphasize,” said Arizona Bishop Kirk Smith in a telephone interview. “We will accomplish a lot more by being here, learning, hearing and responding about it and standing in solidarity with people suffering instead of taking the easy way out by saying let’s go meet someplace else.”

Meaning: Basically they’ll stay, engage in the usual symbolic garbage and then issue their usual Important StatementTM at the end.

"The meeting’s agenda had already included time for the bishops to discuss immigration, border issues, and evangelism, stewardship and congregational development among Hispanic populations, Smith said. After the law’s passage, the meeting was expanded to include the optional border trip and the opportunity to hear from Arizonians on both sides of the issue. The diocese also hopes to schedule a meeting with the Coalition of Episcopal Latinos, which will be meeting in nearby Scottsdale."

Forget Smith’s “victims on both sides” line a couple paragraphs up. Puppet Boy has picked a side and it isn’t Arizonans.

“We’re not doing this because it’s politically correct, we’re doing it because it’s the Christian imperative,” he said. “Do we really want to get to the point where we say before I can give you a cup of cold water, I want to see your papers? That seems to be the direction we’re headed and that’s tragic. We can do better as Christians and as a country. We can do this in a way that’s humane and moral and less fearful.”

Smitty? Two things. In just about every single country in the entire world, you had better have some kind of identification proving that you have a legal right to be there. Including this one, by the way. Look it up.

And Smitty, since you and I are not law enforcement officials, we both can give a cup of cold water to anyone we care to, you pompous, hypocritical fraud.

Don’t like the law? Convince the federal government to do its damned job and secure the border. Work to convince Arizonans that the law needs to be changed; that’s how “democratic polities” do things. Or both.

But do you really think that these implied police state blasts of yours are convincing any of the rest of us who have functioning intellects that this law is the wrong approach? Quite the opposite; according to the polls I’ve seen, support for this law appears to be growing all over the country, not just in Arizona.

So if I were you, I’d entertain the idea of shutting the hell up.